hacksdaa.blogg.se - Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White

A few were men in their thirties or forties who wanted a quickie on their way to work and if they did drop by the tension to get to their office on time made them come too quickly. Some of them were other old men who couldn’t sleep. ‘ There never was any news about his books from Europe, good or bad, and usually Jack stayed awake another hour or two sending messages to young guys who wanted their cocks sucked. There is plenty that can be seen as dark and disillusioned and beautifully written and much that is sharply insightful and downright funny. It is a tension between self-disgust and self-affirmation. I take it as the musings of an older man (I am a year older than White) who has led an interesting life but (post plague years) is now having to deal with the final stages of his personal development as he considers his life, lovers and identity. Autobiographical article excerpted from My Lives.‘ Chaos’ opens with a novella so-named which is intriguing for giving an indication of the birth of ‘Jack Holmes and his Friend’ – even the name. Learning how to love them”, The New Yorker, June 13, 2005.

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Lastly, I am interested in that when he writes same sex love novels, if he was affected by his novels.

And I would also ask him the reason why he went to France to live and does this action affect his own life. If I have a chance to interview Edmund White, I would ask him his thoughts about LGBT, because he wrote a lot of novel about gay. Since he lived in Europe, he asked himself if this element affect his work. Also, he compared his autobiography series with early fiction. In the interview, he communicated his early books including published and unpublished, he talked about the feeling when he is writing, and what is his next book. I clicked into some interviews randomly, and I was attracted by the name of Edmund White, because he made a conversation with himself, in other words, he interviewed himself. He is good at writing the topic of same-sex love. Edmund White is an American novelist, memoirist and essayist.